MR. WANG/ Junk Mail Number Two

I just got another stupid scam junk mail. This is more common than I'm used to. Here 'tis:
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Dear friend,


I am Mr. Liu Wang, an official with the International bank of Taipei, Taiwan.  I have a very
sensitive and confidential brief for you from the International Bank of Taipei, Taiwan. I ask for
your partnership in re-profiling funds. I will give you the details but in summary, the funds are
coming via Bank of Taipei in Taiwan.

This is a legitimate transaction, You will be paid 30% of your management fee. " If you are
interested, please write back and send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers, and I will
give details and instructions. Please keep this confidential, we can't afford to have any
political problems. Finally, please note that it must be concluded within two weeks. Please write
back promptly via this confidential email address (mrwang10@9.cn) for more information


I'm looking forward to it.


Sincerely,
Liu Wang
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Sincerely, you're a moron! Here's a bio of Liu Wang I found online-> http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/liu_wang.htm 
I don't think he's any relation to Liu Kang from Mortal Kombat.
This is a picture of Liu Wang:

COLORFUL CHICKS

No, no. I don't mean like this:

I mean like baby chicken- type chicks. Observe:

It's not Photoshopped. People actually inject colored dyes into eggs when the chicks are still in embryonic stage. When they hatch, voila, they are colorful! A lot of folks think it's cool or cute, though I wonder if it may be messing with nature too much. I think there might be a slight chance that the chicks will have compromised health when tampered with in this way. Yet I don't think there is 100% proof of that. It's an interesting thing all in all.

Pictures Of Women And Kids With Guns

I try to keep an open mind on all life issues, but I usually find war hard to justify in any way shape or form. In many parts of the world, many of us culturally learn that a man as a soldier or police officer is nothing strange. Often (depending on culture and more specific aspects of upbringing) a child or woman soldier will seem much more abnormal or wrong. I just think people killing each other is fucked up, at least 98.99% of the time. Here are some thought provoking images to ponder. I'm not trying to get too political or stuck to one side of belief, rather I'm just trying to get some wheels turning in some heads...

Cosmic Joke #120,582,095,892,939,593,088,934,444

Both are named Scott Reeder.
Both are from California.
Both play Stoner Metal (one mainly in Kyuss, one mainly in Fu Manchu).
Both are in rhythm sections of their bands (one playing bass and the other drums).
Both are long haired and know how to rock out.
Strange coincidence?

Scott Reeder, drummer for Fu Manchu

Scott Reeder, bassist for Kyuss

100 Meters of Existence

Some years back, the photographer Simon Hoegsberg has created an interesting project called 'We're All Gonna Die'. He set up his camera at the same spot on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin day after day for almost a month, snapping pictures of (mostly) oblivious people. The result he came up with was a long strip composite photo showing people from all walks of life, demonstrating we are all unified in the end because we are all gonna die, or something. I dunno, I think I get it.
To see it, click the link here> http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html

Krating Daeng / Thai Red Bull

I reckon at some point I will create a post about a head to head of all sorts of energy drinks, since I have tried quite a few. Most of them are over marketed crap, not really healthy, pricey, and so on. One of the better ones that stands out is Krating Daeng, otherwise known as Thai Red Bull. You see, you may know Red Bull already, it is one of the most popular energy drinks in the world. Before that though there was Thai Red Bull...going as far back as the 70's. It was and still is naturally very popular in Thailand.. and is frequently used as a sponsor for Thai kickboxing matches (kickboxing being huge there as well since it's the national sport).
The drink is popular in other parts of Asia as well, and can be found in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and some parts of Europe. Outside of Asia, check random Asian variety stores and see how your luck fares.

So how did Red Bull get born from Thai Red Bull? 
In 1982, the Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz was visiting Thailand and tried Krating Daeng and loved it. He then developed Red Bull from it a few years later.  But why go for the overly commercial imitation, why not the sun source? Thai Red Bull is not fizzy like a soda, it is more like a very delicious medicinal syrup (though if you mix it about 50/50 with fizzy water it is much like the popular fizzy version of Red Bull). It usually comes in a small glass bottle and not a larger can (though I've heard of can versions). You pretty much do 'shots' of it. The taste alone is very addictive. Like a sweet medicinal bubblegum cream soda with hints of citrus. That's my best description in any event. Actually the taste is very similar to Red Bull or say, Monster, and many other energy drinks, though I think the taste is better. The wakefulness the drink gives is not too jittery, as long as you have doses within reason.

There are actually Japanese and Korean energy drinks as old as the 60's that Thai Red Bull supposedly copied, so perhaps it is not the sun source after all, eh? I haven't tried enough of those energy drinks, but from what I have tried I've not seen anything better. For example, the Korean drink Bacchus-D tastes very similar, but it has a bit of a chemical preservative burn to it, making it crappier overall in my mind. So if you're into energy drinks at any level, Thai Redbull is worth a shot (haha get it? 'shot'..bad pun.)

Here's how it looks....well, one of the forms it takes..

JUNK MAIL

I just received one of those funny scam mails where you are supposed to give up your bank info to supposedly share some wealth with some foreign person of certain eminence or prestige. This may not seem like a big deal, and it really isn't--though I hardly get spam at all--practically one message a month! As for messages of this specific sort (as opposed to enlarging one's manhood and all that other JUNK), I get something like this once a year! I find the message humorous, and so I will post it:
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Dear Friend,

I am Mr.Albert Gaston  I work as a Manager with one of the international bank here in Burkina Faso. Although the world is very small place and hard place to meet people because you don't know who to trust or believe, but as I have developed my trust in you after my praying, i made up my mind to confide this confidential business suggestion with you.

Be rest assure that everything will be handled confidentially because, this is a great opportunity which we cannot afford to miss as it will make our family profit allot.

It has been 7 years ago, that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers,most of the funds which they transferred out of Africa was gold and oil money that was supposed to used to develop the continent.

The Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after the transacfer.

I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when i discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no body cares to ask me because the money was too much for them to control.

As am sending this message to you, I was able to divert Ten Million five Hundred thousand United State Dollars ($10.5M) to an escrow account that belonging to unknown person in bank.

Now the bank is very anxious to know who is the real beneficiary of the funds because they have made a llot of profits with the funds. It has been more than six years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas, majority of them don't have the power again, because their tenure has expired. The $10.5 Million Dollars has been lying in the bank as unclaimed fund.

I will soon retire from the bank and without wasting time i will like the fund to be transferred into your account, so that i will come over there in your country to capitalise the fund, The money will be shared at the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you .There's no one that is going to ask you any question about the funds because everything is well secured with good arrangement.

If you are interested in this transaction, do not hesitate to reply me back, but if you are not interested delete my message from your box.

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Thanks,

Mr.Albert Gaston  .
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Hahahaha, ha.....ha.....hahaha......HA!

This is how I imagine 'Albert Gaston' looks:

Bele gor splork!

Gubalak shnlayak mig taga fola rupba laso mattinari shlaga blaga blundo glonk. Simla balasa kaura sha sha shamalooie toku fanga reston, shamaki ialo shpickle dungis blummie zinger zang blik. Horatu saki naturas lissi baso kuma kurikuri shblinkindokurn splaorch. Hatu watoma erturs gopang omngeaogn zzzzzizzle bla blug grug stin ner aoja sojagd osja reezy! Ogjs hyrek lunbr waboo zimle zang koreng bling blong stura bugasi, najsha ratuu koma singboras kurange linglong bozotron. Sheshe laka bora noing zin ku lu nanatarua wayit gobbolong szingie lumpo draga lindik flingingh gingerbon TV lasi komo dingura.

Ball Lightning

Ball lightning is, you guessed it, lightning in the usual form of a ball or orb (sometimes other closely related shapes) and is quite mysterious. Like the case of U.F.O.s, there are many sightings but many things still have remained unproven. A very small percentage of people claim to have seen ball lightning, perhaps a figure such as 0.66-5%. Usually appearing in thunderstorms (though not always), it tends to have a mind of its own. It can be large or small, come in many colors, hover in the air, zoom along the ground, be repelled or attracted to various objects. The event typically last a second to a full minute. Ball lighting can phase or pass through solid matter harmlessly or it can melt through it or explode on the spot without touching anything. In some reports, ball lightning has fatally injured people. Scientists have re-created similar effects to ball lightning in the lab, solidifying many hypotheses about its nature and origin. Plasma energy, magnetically stimulated hallucinations, vaporized silicon, power surges through certain materials, microwave energy, miniature black holes, aerodynamic vortexes, and more have been implicated in these experimental theories. The main question that remains is: are these simulations as good as the 'real thing', or simply related to it? Below are some classical depictions of ball lightning:

Welsh Rabbit

Have you ever tried Welsh rabbit? It's crazy, because it's not even rabbit! It's more like a glorified grilled cheese...yet it is oh so tasty. No one is 100% sure why the hell the dish is called a rabbit. Some people call it 'rarebit' instead, which is even more confusing, since rarebit seems to not even be a real word in English outside of the context of describing this dish. There are theories that the name came from the fact that at one point long ago cheese was the Welshman's meat, or interpreted in a derogatory way if the Welshman went rabbit hunting he'd end up having to eat cheese, such was his lack of hunting prowess. No one knows. Anyhow, you can try making the recipe pictured above sometime, it's quite good. There are also many variants to look for out there should you please.